| Title: | Discussions from a Christian Perspective |
| Notice: | Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome! |
| Moderator: | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE |
| Created: | Mon Sep 17 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Matthew 6:24 [Jesus speaking] No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and �mammon.� 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink;..... What exactly is mammon? Is it money? Or it is wealth? In what ways do you not serve mammon? Do we have a false mental caricature of those who, unlike us, do? Richard
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| 1350.1 | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Mon Apr 21 1997 21:26 | 10 | |
Here Jesus sets love of God opposite love of wealth of some arbitrary kind. What kind is not important. This saying is consistent with all of Our Blessed Lord's teachings about love of God: anything which interferes with loving God (the perfect master) has the danger or replacing him and becoming a cruel master. /john | |||||
| 1350.2 | SMARTT::DGAUTHIER | Tue Apr 22 1997 11:23 | 44 | ||
Money = wealth = (IMO) mammon. Jesus' message is too clear in this
instance as well as in others regarding wealth. It's a tough pill
for us to swallow.
A friend from DC had jsut sent me an interesting message which I think
is pertinent. Among other things, it exposes just where we reside in
relation to money and wealth.
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If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people. With all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would
look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere
(North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 would be male
70 would be non-white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6
people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth
Only 1 would have a college education.
No one would own a computer
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes
glaringly apparent........
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